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by gerwin05

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I'm using windows Me on an 800MHz pentium III computer with 768MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive (about 30GB still free). After operating for an hour or so, the start button and the arrow ends of slider bars(both horizontal and vertical) start changing colors. they become a jumble of miscellaneous colors and are a bit more difficult to grab with the mouse. This happens with all application and seems to reset to normal if i turn the computer off and then on again. Then the problem resurfaces. Haveyou seen this? Any suggestion?

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by dklippert

Try reducing the hardware acceleration.
Right click the Desktop and select Properties, On the Settings tab Click the Advanced button> On the Performance or Troubleshooting tab, move the Hardware acceleration slider to the left.

by nikki96

More than likely, your system resources are low. Because WindowsME is a Windows 9x based OS, its vital system resources cannot be increased by adding more RAM or a bigger hard drive. This is to ensure backwards-compatibility with 16-bit applications.
See http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/win-resources.html for details. (remove spaces from URL)

Monitor your system resources and be careful with any "big" applications that are resource hogs like IE, Outlook, Frontpage, DreamweaverMX, FlashMX, and many other graphics and development applications. Don't have more than one or two of these resource hogs open at one time.

By the way, Windows ME has a memory "leak" where resources do not get put back on the heap when freed by the application, so the reboot is the only way to re-allocate them. It was reported as a bug a while ago, but no fix ever came out. They now say to upgrade to XP.

Hope this helps.

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